Can't recall either of those amps Pete, only the ones with the little window and the 826 inside.
I've heard stories about Herman for years. A couple of the local guys are going to make sure we meet at Shelby next month, looking forward to it. Apparently not your typical collector who has one of everything, Herman has at least 5, or so the stories go. He's had a lot of gear in the CQ Classics calendars over the years, that's for sure.
I've known Herman for many years. Many of the pictures Joe shot for those calendars came from Herman's collection. I sold Herman at Dayton last year probably the only Squires Sanders UltraMonitor FM receiver to actually ever leave the factory. They only built a bunch of prototypes before killing the project. Besides Dayton, I've run into Herman at Shelby, Charlotte, and several hamfests in Maryland (Howard County, Gaithersburg, Timonium). He always stops by my tables to see what weird and/or unusual things I have for sale or to compare notes on the day's flea market table sights.
It would be great if he did a picture tour of his collection. I have no idea how big it actually is although I seem to remember him saying many years ago, he wanted to collect one of everything in amateur radio. That's a lot of stuff.
Here's Herman on the January 1998 cover of CQ.
